Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 1
It is not a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle, a bat lighter than a pound coin, snapping up insects drawn to the light.
Who acts: shape, bat · What happens: not be, snap up, draw · To what, where: moth, insects, light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shape, bat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moth | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 moth | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moth | det |
| 5 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 bird | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moth | conj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pipistrelle | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pipistrelle | det |
| 11 | pipistrelle | pipistrelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moth | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighter | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bat | det |
| 14 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pipistrelle | appos |
| 15 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 bat | amod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 coin | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 coin | det |
| 18 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coin | compound |
| 19 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighter | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 snapping | punct |
| 21 | snapping | snap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bat | acl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 snapping | compound:prt |
| 23 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 snapping | obj |
| 24 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 insects | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 light | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 light | det |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drawn | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | shape | a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snap up | gerund | a bat not said here | insects | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location insect=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | insects not said here | the light | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to light=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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